25 Celebrities' Secret Talents

Does playing accordion count toward being a triple threat?

By
Jennifer Newman

Jul 20, 2017

If you're doing icebreakers as a celebrity, are you allowed to just go, "You know who I am?" Even if not, you'd still have ammo for two truths and a lie, though, as these 25 famous people show. Ahead, their lesser-known skills revealed.

"Loose Goose—I haven't heard that name in a long time." —Bruce Willis, probably. Before he was John McClane, Willis was the harmonica player in an R&B group. He still plays, now with a group called The Accelerators.

Make this your phone background. He's now known for insulting celebrities while hosting awards shows, but once upon a time, he was part of a not-very-successful New Wave pop duo called Seona Dancing.

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Christina Hendricks

If you've got an actor who knows how to play the accordion (okay), you write it into the show, as Matt Weiner did for Joan Hollaway. In a Q&A on AMC, Hendricks said she's "always loved that instrument. It's so romantic and it's got this full, rich sound."

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Colin Farrell

First of all, the caption for this photo is priceless: "Colin Farrell working as a £30 a night line dancing instructor, 1997." (But in all caps, which is even more LOL. Also, "line dancing" as in country and Western.) It's all true, as he said in an interview with fellow dancer Conan O'Brien.

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Conan O'Brien

In the aforementioned video, O'Brien mentions being an expert tap-dancer—but not so much so that he could avoid kicking a poor girl in the face, oops.

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